Tuesday, March 4, 2008

I was in Subway for lunch today and caught a laundry list of school closings due to weather. Maybe I'm still acclimated to Chicagoland weather, but I'm kinda confused as to why a bunch of school districts closed for the day. There wasn't even two inches of accumulation on the ground at the time, and all the arterial streets were being kept clear by plows and salt.

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Outside of town, the wind can cause drifting which will close roads and create white-out conditions. So lots of times, rural schools will close early so that buses and parents can get home before the roads are impassable. It doesn't take much snow to make the country *bad.*